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Banning literary sequels

Mediabistro’s Galley Cat brings attention to an ongoing legal battle over the intellectual property rights to Victor Hugo’s classic Les Misérables. Pierre Hugo, the author’s great-great-grandson, is fighting to remove two sequels written by Francois ... Read More »

January 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

R U reading this novel?

By Nathan Whitlock

The Globe and Mail ran a story this week on a new novel published in Finland that is entirely composed of cell phone text messages. The Last Messages tells the story of a fictitious executive ... Read More »

January 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Please, sir, I want some more Charles Dickens

By Alison Jones

In what seems to be a push to get young readers interested in Charles Dickens (whose birthday is Feb. 7), the BBC website is featuring an interactive game and an animated version of the author's ... Read More »

January 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Message on a napkin

By Leigh Anne Williams

Esquire has commissioned a collection of very short stories – short enough to fit on a cocktail napkin, to be precise. For "The Esquire Napkin Project," the magazine mailed blank napkins to dozens of writers, ... Read More »

January 25, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Friday photo: Vincent Lam

By Q&Q Staff

This week's photo is courtesy of Ottawa photographer John W. MacDonald. On Wednesday, Vincent Lam read from his Giller Prize-winning Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures and packed 200 people into a standing-room only space at the ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

The end of ReganBooks

By Leigh Anne Williams

The big news south of the border is that with Judith Regan gone, HarperCollins is sweeping out the corners – cancelling that controversial Mickey Mantle bio, shutting down the L.A. ReganBooks office, and renaming the ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Stranger than fiction

By Alison Jones

British author Ian McEwan's life contains as great a plot twist as any he has ever written – a long-lost brother. According to a CNN report (taken from an article in the Oxford Mail), McEwan ... Read More »

January 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Peeking at authors' bookshelves

By Alison Jones

When trying to expand a personal library or find a few books for the winter months, lists help narrow down the endless possibilities. But, as Lev Grossman points out in an article for TIME, there ... Read More »

January 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

The curse of Confederacy?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Slate's Peter Hyman looks at more than two decades' worth of attempts to bring John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces to the silver screen. The legendary comic novel was published in 1980, 11 years ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

In defence of research and borrowing

By Nathan Whitlock

An impressive constellation of literary stars has come to the defence of British author Ian McEwan, who was accused by a writer for The Daily Mail of plagiarizing the memoir of romance novelist Lucilla Andrews, ... Read More »

December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

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